Compensation plans could see car insurance prices slashed for millions!
Following our blog on surging car insurance premiums being blamed on a whiplash ‘claims culture‘, new plans have been suggested to cap or cut whiplash insurance claims – saving £40 a year for most motorists.
If put into place successfully, millions of motorists across the UK would benefit from the lowered claim levels, as insurers promise to pass on…
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This week sees a new feature added to Liftshare communities and schemes – social directories.
Where overarching Liftshare schemes exist with smaller groups underneath, the directories show these groups along with how many people belong to them, and the avatars of the latest registrations.
Remember our previous blog on our Tech Team A/B testing new features? This was one of…
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Welsh-based insurer Admiral has announced that it will analyse the personalities of first-time drivers by checking their Facebook profiles before offering them policies.
The scheme will be optional, but will see Admiral use an algorithm to examine social media pages to determine whether or not the customer is likely to be a careful driver. A ‘snapshot’ of their social media…
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A historical employment tribunal has ruled in favour of Uber drivers in the UK – confirming that they are not self-employed, and so should receive the national living wage alongside other employment benefits. Uber will appeal the judgment.
James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam brought the case to tribunal on behalf of a group of 19 drivers, arguing that they were…
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Jaguar Land Rover staff at the company’s Halewood site took Liftshare Week 2016 as an opportunity to galvanise their sharing culture – and signed up almost 350 new members to their scheme as a result of the campaign!
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The AA has reported that motorists face paying nearly £82 more for car insurance than a year ago, with prices predicted to continue heading upward in the near future.
The latest British Insurance Premium Index shows that typical premium quotes have risen by 16.3% over the last year. The AA attribute this upsurge to three main factors; two increases in Insurance…
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This year our Tech Team have increased the number of experiments that they run on Liftshare.com, implementing dozens of them, often as multi-variant A/B tests. On this blog I share on some of the lessons learnt from our Chief Product Officer, Sergio.
In case you’re not familiar with the term, according to Optimizely, A/B testing (also known as split…
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Here at Liftshare, we’ve seen a lot of people online referring to car sharing as ‘hitch-hiking 2.0’ or the evolution of hitch-hiking, and while we agree these sound like pretty great terms in headlines, they’re not actually indicative of what the process of sharing a car involves.
We thought we’d take a few moments to explain the differences between both…
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Here at Liftshare we take issues of safety and insurance seriously, and one question we get asked often is how car sharing impacts a driver’s insurance. In short, it doesn’t because Liftshare members are simply volunteering their car’s spare seats to cover petrol costs – instead of making a profit.
We’ve covered this issue in our car…
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